Overview

「LG Global Challenger」is the first and oldest overseas expedition program for undergraduates. Students freely choose the expedition theme and country, and visit ‘world’s excellent sites’. Since its first introduction in 1995, it became the major overseas expedition program most popular among university students with the competitive rate of 21:1 every year.

Five expedition fields of「LG Global Challenger」are Natural Science, Information Technology · Engineering, Economy · Management, Humanity · Social Science and Culture · Art · Gymnastics. The members of LG Global Challenger spend 2 weeks of their summer vacation according to each team’s autonomous expedition plan participating in the exploration activity in government agencies, laboratories, universities, companies and social organizations that have the world’s best knowledge and know-how.

LG funds all the expenses during the expedition period including flight fee and expedition expenditures and also give scholarship after reviewing Challenger report students handed in after the program. Furthermore, to those teams that received grand prize, LG provides internship and even a job offer.

Meanwhile, LG publishes students’ expedition report into a book and distributes to universities and public libraries. LG also posts on the website of「LG Global Challenger」() so that students, companies, and government agencies could freely use it.